Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

child-nature

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.81 in modern English

Syllables: child--na-ture
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The natural behaviour and dispositions of children, as opposed to adults.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"We all admit now that the Child does not come into the world with a mental tabula rasa of entire forgetfulness but on the contrary as the possessor of vast stores of sub-conscious memory, derived from its ancestral inheritances; we all admit that a certain grace and intuitive insight and even prophetic quality, in the child-nature, are due to the harmonization of these racial inheritances in the infant, even before it is born; and that after birth the impact of the outer world serves rather to break up and disintegrate this harmony than to confirm and strengthen it."

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does child-nature mean?: The natural behaviour and dispositions of children, as opposed to adults.

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